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Utah election law would see two technical adjustments under this bill. First, it changes the timeframe in which the lieutenant governor must randomly generate the master ballot position list—the alphabetical ordering system used to determine the sequence candidates appear on ballots—shifting it from a window of 30 days after the candidate filing deadline to a new window occurring no earlier than 30 days and no later than 14 days before the fourth Wednesday in April in even-numbered years. Second, for the 2026 election only, the bill aligns the signature-submission deadline for U.S. House candidates gathering signatures to qualify for a party's primary ballot with the same deadline that applies to other similarly situated candidates, rather than the fixed March 13, 2026 date set in current law. This means U.S. House candidates using the signature-gathering path in 2026 would have their submission deadline tied to their party's convention date, consistent with how other statewide and district candidates are treated.